South Yorkshire police have handed the Crown Prosecution Service a file of evidence relating to allegations of historical sex abuse by Cliff Richard. Prosecutors are now considering whether to bring charges against the bachelor boy. Sir Cliff, 75, was interviewed in 2014 and 2015 by South Yorkshire Police investigating a claim of a sex crime involving a young boy in the 1980s. He has always denied the claims.
A former Flint city administrator is suing Mayor Karen Weaver for allegedly trying to funnel donations to her personal campaign fund from a charity meant to help families hurt by water crisis. A wrongful termination lawsuit was filed on Monday in federal court in Detroit said that former city Administrator Natasha Henderson was fired in violation of whistle-blower and free-speech protections under Michigan law and the U.S. Constitution.
Just days after Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was moved to a prison near the US border, a Mexican federal judge has ruled that the notorious drug lord can be extradited to the US to face criminal charges Guzman’s lawyers are fighting the decision. They say that several appeals remain pending and that any effort to send him to the U.S. now would violate his human rights.
A U.S. court has ruled that citizens have “no constitutional” rights to record police officers on their cellphones, regardless of whether cops are acting unlawfully. Judge Mark Kearney in Philadelphia said that citizens must explicitly explain to cops that they are recording them for the purpose of criticizing police – otherwise face arrest. “We find there is no First Amendment right under our governing law to observe and record police officers absent some other expressive conduct,” Kearney said in reference to two cases involving Philadelphia police.
Two journalists working for the Cumhuriyet newspaper in Turkey have been sentenced to five years in prison, in the first ever case of its kind in Europe. Can Dundar and Erdem Gul were convicted on charges of “revealing state secrets”. RT.com reports: The Turkish court has reportedly acquitted them on some of the charges, including that of “coup attempt,” according to the newspaper. The two had also faced life sentences for publishing their report which claims that Turkey has delivered weapons to terrorists in Syria.